Gender and Natural Resources
SANCHEZ, MARIA CONSUELO
Article 27 of the Mexican Agrarian Law (1992)
modified property rights in land with the goal of
modernizing and developing the agrarian sector. In
order to determine changes in property rights, formal
and informal property rights institutions were
compared prior to and following the granting of legal
rights in land to women in 1971 and the alienation of
ejido land in 1992 subsequent to Article 27.
Productive spaces and forests (k'ax) supply fo...